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 illustrious fathers! They also are "rioting" and revelling in the sanctum sanctorum of freedom; while the voice of the widow, the fatherless, and the oppressed exile.

Passes by like the idle wind, With none but God, alas! to trust, As sophistry, so very kind, Exclaiming, "I know your cause is just— but government has no power to do any thing for you!"

In such an awful dilemma: upon the eve of such a tempest of trouble: as a messenger that only escaped alone to tell thee, the Voice of Truth, composed of facts, to favor the people, is sent forth to open the eyes, unstop the ears and quicken the senses of wise men to arise in the panoply of virtuous patriots, and save the nation from ruin and disgrace, and themselves from the ravages of wrath! Shall wisdom cry aloud and not her speech be heard? what say the people!